The Rotary Club of
Burwood
 
Chartered 1939
SPOKE 
Weekly Club Bulletin - Vol 84 Issue  29 4th April 2022  
 
Pres John Mansour 

Rotary Affirmation: 

May Rotary friends and Rotary ways help us to serve our community
here and  abroad in many ways.
 
 
 
Meeting at Coro 88
Nelson on the Park 
88 Burwood Road Burwood 
6.00 for 6.30 
 

 

Burwood Rotary meeting on 21 March 2022

The meeting started at 6:33 PM with acting Pres Fred welcoming guest speaker, Sanjeev Goyal Apologies by Peter Moore and Pres John Mansour and John Kane was sick.

 

Anna was asked about Eurella and she indicated that they had a client base of 105, approximately 35 working in the sheltered employment with others involved in community programs

Alf and Sam are looking at options with the trailer. They have photos from a Brisbane seller of trailers. Burwood Rotaract is closing on 30 June 2022 and looking at merging with Strathfield Rotaract.

Reports

Robert reported that he Fred and Tim met Mr Hanna regarding the ambassadorial scholarship and that we all thought that he was genuine. General discussion then about the program and our role in it. Robert indicated that all we were doing was checking the applicant out and all financial responsibilities would be with district. The grant was approximately 30,000 US dollars

Sam spoke about the early Bird Café. 3 members came plus a member’s spouse. Jeanette went outside the park and found a person for one order. Sam is committed for 6 weeks which means there is another 2 weeks to go to see how things pan out. One of the councillors, Hugo Robinson , came down and spoke with the attendees indicating that Council had found that a number of people park near the school, sleep and then leave early.

Anzac Day is on again this year and the beneficiary of any monies raised is Days for Girls

Paul Sarks advised that the District Governor had covid and that he estimated that 80% of the people attending the district conference were women.

Guest speaker

Theo introduced the guest speaker Sanjeev Goyal. He has a Masters of science in aeronautical engineering and a diploma in information technology. He is the Director of community services at Granville Rotary club and can speak 4 languages. He is married and has 2 children, both of whom are doctors working in the hospital system. Both of them are recipients of the US President’s award for excellence. Sanjeev is well known in the community for being able to obtain grants for the benefits of his club. In the last 2 financial years he has applied for various grants for community organisations for values of $50,000 and $100,000 respectively in those 2 financial years and for the Rotary club has secured grants of up to $60,000.

Sanjeev explained that there are many Federal State and Local Government and Club grants available and he has been put on a subscription list so he is informed of the grants. One particular grant could have up to 1500 applicants so there is much competition. When he started he was getting 1/10 but nowadays is getting about 40 to 50% success rate. Using the trailer as an example you would have to explain how you are going to spend the grant get at least 2 quotations and for example if $10,000 is the maximum under the grant explain how we would get the balance of $5000. The Westconnex grant covering Burwood comes out every year and it finishes this year on 30 March 2022. The issues that need to be covered are health and safety, education and economic outcomes and environmental sustainability. You would need to address at least one of those matters to support the application.

An example of a grant obtained by Sanjeev was $5000 from the Department of multicultural New South Wales where they delivered food in June 2020 and travelled up to 1000 km in doing that. Currently the club is doing a lot of food supply, promoting vaccination drive, booster shot and Rotary women welfare projects. Preparing an application is very time consuming as it takes him 2 to 3 weeks to prepare an application with there being a period of 2 to 3 months before being advised of the result.

Sergeants session

No sergeants session.

Raffle winner Theo

Meeting closed approximately 8.04 PM

 

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